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VH-1 is launching a new batch of celebreality shows with enough of a tenuous musical connection that they’re being wrapped into one primetime block early next year. They haven’t decided on the night, but they’ve given it a name: Wild Life (we figure Washed Up Life didn’t track as well in the focus groups, but [...]


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Thanks to a little help offered on the Disney Channel website, the Hannah Montana look promises to be the costume of choice among young girls (and some grown men in major cities) this Halloween. The 10 easy steps include dark jeans, flat boots, a red, purple green or white top, a glittery (“or even leather”) [...]


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Thanks to a little help offered on the Disney Channel website, the Hannah Montana look promises to be the costume of choice among young girls (and some grown men in major cities) this Halloween. The 10 easy steps include dark jeans, flat boots, a red, purple green or white top, a glittery (“or even leather”) [...]


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Tori Spelling has found a home for the reality show she and her new husband have been pitching in wake of So NoTORIous, the ratings-impaired scripted series on VH-1. And if the premise seems more than a little concocted, the finale promises to be as real as it gets. Oxygen has picked up the still-untitled, [...]


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Tori Spelling has found a home for the reality show she and her new husband have been pitching in wake of So NoTORIous, the ratings-impaired scripted series on VH-1. And if the premise seems more than a little concocted, the finale promises to be as real as it gets. Oxygen has picked up the still-untitled, [...]


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Madeyoulaugh alerted us to David Letterman’s confrontation with Fox News blowhard, perverted sexual harasser and former unctuous tabloid television host Bill O’Reilly on Friday night’s Late Show. And in case you missed it, Round Two of the Letterman-O’Reilly showdown was as compelling as madeyoulaugh promised, definitely “one for the ages” and, if all is right [...]


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Madeyoulaugh alerted us to David Letterman’s confrontation with Fox News blowhard, perverted sexual harasser and former unctuous tabloid television host Bill O’Reilly on Friday night’s Late Show. And in case you missed it, Round Two of the Letterman-O’Reilly showdown was as compelling as madeyoulaugh promised, definitely “one for the ages” and, if all is right [...]


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There’s word that Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip is about to get the axe, despite NBC’s announcement Friday that it ordered up a whopping three extra episodes of the portentious drama about the serious folk behind a weekly comedy show. (But what if the show’s creator and writer Aaron Sorkin turned his attention to [...]


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There’s word that Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip is about to get the axe, despite NBC’s announcement Friday that it ordered up a whopping three extra episodes of the portentious drama about the serious folk behind a weekly comedy show. (But what if the show’s creator and writer Aaron Sorkin turned his attention to [...]


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Dick Clark refuses to let Ryan Seacrest be his own man and host a TV show on his own, alone, like Carson Daly. Despite his buzz-killing appearance on ABC’s last New Year’s Rockin’ Eve special, when he brought every partier down with his reminder that in the future we’re all going to get old, have [...]


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Dick Clark refuses to let Ryan Seacrest be his own man and host a TV show on his own, alone, like Carson Daly. Despite his buzz-killing appearance on ABC’s last New Year’s Rockin’ Eve special, when he brought every partier down with his reminder that in the future we’re all going to get old, have [...]


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We always knew Dancing with The Stars was too big for television. Now, in what has to be the most anticipated TV show tour since H.R. Pufnstuf on Ice, the ABC series is heading across America in a live arena show featuring some– but not all– of the favorite contestants from three seasons. The tour [...]


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We always knew Dancing with The Stars was too big for television. Now, in what has to be the most anticipated TV show tour since H.R. Pufnstuf on Ice, the ABC series is heading across America in a live arena show featuring some– but not all– of the favorite contestants from three seasons. The tour [...]


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As if My Name Is Earl isn’t cartoony enough, the hit comedy will literally become animated for November sweeps. For the very special episode airing on November 16th, all the main characters– Earl, Randy, Joy, Darnell and Catalina– were created as 12-inch puppets by the people who brought The Nightmare Before Christmas and The PJs [...]


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As if My Name Is Earl isn’t cartoony enough, the hit comedy will literally become animated for November sweeps. For the very special episode airing on November 16th, all the main characters– Earl, Randy, Joy, Darnell and Catalina– were created as 12-inch puppets by the people who brought The Nightmare Before Christmas and The PJs [...]


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They’ve gone after Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson but now the guys behind South Park are facing real anger for “poking” fun at freshly-dead reality TV martyr Steve Irwin and sending him to Hell– with the stingray barb still poking out of his chest. South Park satirists Trey Parker and Matt Stone have gone after [...]


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They’ve gone after Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson but now the guys behind South Park are facing real anger for “poking” fun at freshly-dead reality TV martyr Steve Irwin and sending him to Hell– with the stingray barb still poking out of his chest. South Park satirists Trey Parker and Matt Stone have gone after [...]


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NBC and The CW network are refusing to air ads for Shut Up & Sing, the new documentary about free speech and the fallout over the Dixie Chicks’ singer’s remarks about President Bush. NBC said it “cannot accept these spots as they are disparaging to President Bush.” The CW Television Network claimed it does “not [...]


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NBC and The CW network are refusing to air ads for Shut Up & Sing, the new documentary about free speech and the fallout over the Dixie Chicks’ singer’s remarks about President Bush. NBC said it “cannot accept these spots as they are disparaging to President Bush.” The CW Television Network claimed it does “not [...]


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Back in 1977, William Shatner made TV game show history on The $20,000 Pyramid, when he gave an illegal clue, cost a contestant big money, and threw his chair out of the Winner’s Circle. Now 29 years later, The Shat is being allowed back into the game show realm, this time as a host. And [...]


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Back in 1977, William Shatner made TV game show history on The $20,000 Pyramid, when he gave an illegal clue, cost a contestant big money, and threw his chair out of the Winner’s Circle. Now 29 years later, The Shat is being allowed back into the game show realm, this time as a host. And [...]


The Simple Life

Nicole Richie, our favorite celebutante waif, is finally listening to all the people who say she’s too skinny. The star of The Simple Life is checking herself into a clinic for “testing and observation” to find out why she’s not gaining any weight, despite all the healthy full meals and ice cream she’s been eating [...]


The Simple Life

Nicole Richie, our favorite celebutante waif, is finally listening to all the people who say she’s too skinny. The star of The Simple Life is checking herself into a clinic for “testing and observation” to find out why she’s not gaining any weight, despite all the healthy full meals and ice cream she’s been eating [...]


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Country singer Sara Evans’ sensational divorce, which blew up all over Dancing with The Stars and promised to get even wilder, now seems ready to fade away with a whimper. Sara dropped out of the Dancing competition (and gave Jerry Springer a reprieve) and filed for a divorce two weeks ago, charging sensationally that Craig [...]


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Country singer Sara Evans’ sensational divorce, which blew up all over Dancing with The Stars and promised to get even wilder, now seems ready to fade away with a whimper. Sara dropped out of the Dancing competition (and gave Jerry Springer a reprieve) and filed for a divorce two weeks ago, charging sensationally that Craig [...]


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NBC may be having second thoughts about saving money by turning over the 8 pm timeslot to cheap reality TV and game shows and the likes of Howie Mandel and Bob Saget. Starting November 30, they’re looking to recreate their less-tarnished past, turning Thursday nights into a two-hour primetime comedy block, as Scrubs returns and [...]


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NBC may be having second thoughts about saving money by turning over the 8 pm timeslot to cheap reality TV and game shows and the likes of Howie Mandel and Bob Saget. Starting November 30, they’re looking to recreate their less-tarnished past, turning Thursday nights into a two-hour primetime comedy block, as Scrubs returns and [...]


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Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who started out as a Survivor: The Australian Outback cutie and wound up as the dim conservative prig and now Rosie O’Donnell’s whipping girl on The View, got herself in the news this week by going after Law & Order: SVU because the show named a raped and murdered character “Elizabeth Hassenback.” Little [...]


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Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who started out as a Survivor: The Australian Outback cutie and wound up as the dim conservative prig and now Rosie O’Donnell’s whipping girl on The View, got herself in the news this week by going after Law & Order: SVU because the show named a raped and murdered character “Elizabeth Hassenback.” Little [...]


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Just when things might start making sense on Lost, ABC is snatching it away! Our favorite castaway series will go missing for an entire thirteen weeks, after episode six of season three airs on November eighth. But here’s the good news: starting on February 7th, ABC will run the rest of the season –sixteen weeks [...]


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Just when things might start making sense on Lost, ABC is snatching it away! Our favorite castaway series will go missing for an entire thirteen weeks, after episode six of season three airs on November eighth. But here’s the good news: starting on February 7th, ABC will run the rest of the season –sixteen weeks [...]


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So did Isaiah Washington really utter homophobic slurs when he scuffled with Patrick Dempsey on the set of Grey’s Anatomy? Well, he’s not saying exactly, but today he’s definitely apologizing for something. “I sincerely regret my actions and the unfortunate use of words during the recent incident on-set. Both are beneath my own personal standards,” [...]


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So did Isaiah Washington really utter homophobic slurs when he scuffled with Patrick Dempsey on the set of Grey’s Anatomy? Well, he’s not saying exactly, but today he’s definitely apologizing for something. “I sincerely regret my actions and the unfortunate use of words during the recent incident on-set. Both are beneath my own personal standards,” [...]


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Aaron Sorkin may have finally gone over the edge with the sermonizing, preaching and lecturing on Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip. The show has already been floating in an astoundingly bizarre alternate dramedy universe in its depiction of a live weekly comedy series, with its lame sketches, college-level references to Commedia dell’Arte, Gilbert & [...]


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Aaron Sorkin may have finally gone over the edge with the sermonizing, preaching and lecturing on Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip. The show has already been floating in an astoundingly bizarre alternate dramedy universe in its depiction of a live weekly comedy series, with its lame sketches, college-level references to Commedia dell’Arte, Gilbert & [...]


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We dig Prison Break because it’s so outrageous and amped up a notch or two beyond reality. Never mind Wentworth Miller’s ten-years worth of tattoowork; the whole idea of a guy getting himself sentenced to prison so he can break out his wrongly-incarcerated brother is one of those screenwriter’s flights of fantasy that’s too far [...]


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We dig Prison Break because it’s so outrageous and amped up a notch or two beyond reality. Never mind Wentworth Miller’s ten-years worth of tattoowork; the whole idea of a guy getting himself sentenced to prison so he can break out his wrongly-incarcerated brother is one of those screenwriter’s flights of fantasy that’s too far [...]


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Season Six of 24 gets a running start with a two-night, four-hour premiere beginning January 14th, but Fox is so excited they went live with an extended trailer this afternoon. Jack Bauer was last seen, beaten, bloodied and bound, on a ship headed for China. Now he’s walking off a transport plane, with a beard [...]


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Season Six of 24 gets a running start with a two-night, four-hour premiere beginning January 14th, but Fox is so excited they went live with an extended trailer this afternoon. Jack Bauer was last seen, beaten, bloodied and bound, on a ship headed for China. Now he’s walking off a transport plane, with a beard [...]